This is the cemetery’s oldest and largest mausoleum, meaning that coffin burials are in enclosures above ground. It is located in Block 17. Nine individuals rest here.

Donald Macleay (1834-1897) was born in Scotland and arrived in Oregon in 1866. He and his business partner, William Corbitt, es­tab­lished a highly profitable wholesale and shipping business in Portland involving groceries, liquor, wheat, salmon, and timber, and he invested in Oregon railroads, real estate, and Portland businesses.

He married Martha MacCulloch (1840-1876), who was famous for her beautifully landscaped home in southwest Portland. Martha asked her husband’s ship captains to bring her plants from their ports of call and these exotic varieties were the basis of Oregon’s horticultural industry. The property was donated to the Episcopal Church and is now known as Elk Rock Gardens of the Bishop’s Close. The gardens are open to the public.

Martha died the day after giving birth to their fourth child and Donald built the mausoleum as a tribute to her in 1877-1878. It was built of red sandstone to resemble the Macleay home in Ross Shire, Scotland, and cost $13,500. The chapel on the second floor was open to the public until the early 1980s when vandals damaged the interior and broke all but one of the original stained glass windows.